Upper Mammals Gallery 1911. Photo: The Trustees of the Natural History Museum London.
LONDON.- The Natural History Museum has announced it will be throwing open the doors to a gallery which has been closed to the public since 1943. The gallery will initially reopen for 18 months on 16 September with Nature and Us, supported by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), where visitors can explore our evolving relationship with the natural world through 50 remarkable objects. Key specimens and historic objects appearing in Nature and Us include a miniature model of a Crystal Palace dinosaur, illustrating how early scientists and artists imagined prehistoric life; Jenny, a Victorian skeleton of a monk seal that reveals how wild animals were once exploited for entertainment; a bryozoan-encrusted Star Wars toy from the 1980s, showing how everyday objects can acquire new meanings through nature and time; and a 400,000-year-old handaxe whose discovery transformed our understanding of when humans first existed. Visitors will also be able to touch a replica jaw of one of Britain's ... More
Kaari Upson with Mother's Legs (2018–2019), Go Back the Way You Came, Kunsthalle Basel, 2019. Photo: Dominik Asche Esm Trust / Kaari Upson Trust
LUGANO.- MASI Lugano presents the first major posthumous retrospective dedicated to the American artist Kaari Upson (1970-2021). Upson, who gained traction in Europe after taking part in the 58th Venice Biennale (2019), is one of the most intense and original voices of her generation. In a career that lasted just over fifteen years, and spanned sculpture, video, drawing and installation, she constructed a layered language that she used to explore themes such as relationships, the body, illness and loss. Her works - suspended between intimacy and alienation - evoke an unsettling universe, in that everyday objects and environments become repositories for obsession and trauma. Although her art is rooted in her lived experience and her hometown of San Bernardino, California, it channels an intimate yet universal vision of the contemporary psyche. The exhibition at MASI takes in her entire oeuvre and is structured in five broadly chronological sections ... More
Piet Mondrian, Composition III, 1920; estimate: 20,000,000-30,000,000.
LONDON.- Christie's announces that Piet Mondrian's Composition III will be one of the key highlights of its 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale on 14 October 2026 during Frieze Week. Carrying an estimate of 20,000,000-30,000,000, this masterwork is the most important Mondrian offered at auction in Europe since 2009, when Composition avec bleu, rouge, jaune et noir (1922) and Composition I (1920) were sold at Christie's Paris from the Collection of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berg. Composition III comes to auction for the first time, with past custodians including the legendary architect and collector of Modernism Armand P. Bartos and his wife Celeste. Painted in 1920, Composition III dates to a pivotal moment in the artist's career, as he achieved the first breakthrough examples of his visionary Neo-Plastic style. That year, Mondrian completed just eight landmark paintings, five of which are now held in internationally renowned museum collections: Tate, London; The Museum of Modern Art, ... More
Oil on canvas portrait in the manner of Jacopo Robusti Tintoretto (Venice, Italy 1518-1594), depicting Pietro Capello, Governor of Frulli. Estimate: $30,000-$50,000
BLOOMFIELD, NJ.- Nye & Company Auctioneers invites collectors, dealers, designers and connoisseurs everywhere to discover two days of exceptional objects at its Chic & Antique Auction, slated for September 9th and 10th, beginning at 10am Eastern Time both days. At the heart of the sale is an extraordinary opportunity for collectors of American ceramics: more than 100 lots from the Stradling Study Collection -- property from the celebrated New York City antiques dealers Diana and Gary Stradling. The collection launches the first session with over 100 lots of pottery and related material—a remarkable concentration assembled by two dealers whose scholarship, eye and enthusiasm helped shape the American ceramics market for decades. “Nye & Company is thrilled to bring The Stradling Study Collection to market in partnership with Connor Rush of SFR Antiques, whose assistance and scholarship were instrumental in completing the ... More
Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, Discussion, 1926, Collection of the Kunstmuseum Bonn.
HAMBURG.- The exhibition From Monet to Picasso. Jewish Art Collectors in Germany reconstructs fifteen major collections of modern art built up by German Jews before 1945, and thus reunites works now scattered all over the world. Not only does it showcase outstanding early modern art works, but also presents historical documents to trace their journeys and the lives of their former owners. The fate of the collectors during the Shoah as well as the associated dissolution of their collections are essential elements in the show’s conceptual design. The exhibition commemorates the pioneering role of German Jews in establishing, fostering and defending modern forms of art in Germany. The works on show range from the time of Realism and Impressionism to Expressionism and New Objectivity. They include around 100 paintings, prints, graphic works and sculptures by artists such as Paul Cezanne, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Claude ... More
Baldwin SD-10B Grand Piano from Dave Brubeck's home in Wilton, Connecticut. Estimate $15,000–20,000.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Julien’s Auctions presents Jazz Legends, a landmark two-day auction celebrating the enduring legacies of jazz icons Dave Brubeck and Tony Bennett. Taking place September 17-18 from Los Angeles, the sale features more than 200 personal items from the Estate of Dave Brubeck along with more than 180 artworks by the beloved singer and painter Tony Bennett. Dave Brubeck, honored as a “Living Legend” by the Library of Congress, was a cornerstone of both the jazz and classical music scenes. Across a vibrant career spanning six decades, his creative use of odd time signatures, polyrhythms, polytonality, and improvised counterpoint defined his groundbreaking approach to music. His landmark 1959 album, Time Out, made history as the first jazz album to cross the million-copy sales mark and introduced listeners worldwide to the enduring classic,“Take Five.” Brubeck’s influence was global; he performed for royalty, heads of state, and numerous ... More
Lori Nelson publicity photo.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The collection of hundreds of French and American art glass treasures from the estate of former fashion model and prolific 1950s and 1960s film and television actress, Lori Nelson (1933-2020), will be offered at auction in Los Angeles and online by Goldberg Coins & Collectibles on October 8, 2026. The collection includes art glass by Tiffany, Gall, Steuben, Daum Nancy, and other prominent artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries. “Before, during, and after her career with Universal Pictures, Lori Nelson was a passionate collector who assembled one of the largest private collections of French and American art glass. She took extreme care to preserve and secure her treasures. In fact, because of the precautions she took, all but one of her more than 300 art glass items safely survived intact the 6.7 magnitude Northridge earthquake that shook Los Angeles in 1994,” said Freeman Fisher, Goldberg Coins & Collectibles Director of Collectibles. “There are many museum-qualit ... More
Paleontologist Felisa Aguilar during the inaugural tour of the exhibition. Photo: Melitn Tapia, INAH.
MEXICO CITY.- Fossils may be millions of years old, but the questions surrounding their protection are very much of the present. At the recently concluded 37th International Anthropology and History Book Fair (FILAH) in Mexico City, paleontologists and researchers used a public discussion and a new exhibition to look at how Mexico has advanced in safeguarding its fossil heritage — and at the work that still remains to be done. Held at the National Museum of Anthropology, the discussion brought together specialists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) and the National Autonomous University of Mexico to consider the scientific, legal and social challenges facing paleontology in the country. Among the participants were Eduardo Corona Martnez, president of INAH’s Paleontology Council; Felisa Aguilar Arellano, academic coordinator of the Quinametzin Paleontological Research Center; and Elena Centeno Garca of UNAM’s Institute of Geology. Their conversation retur ... More
Paul Wallach, Since The Day Before, 2022. Wood, string, paper, paint. 37 7/8 x 20 7/8 x 12 1/2 inches (96 x 53 x 31.5 cm).
TOKYO.- Fergus McCaffrey will present DIVISIBLE, an exhibition of recent sculpture by Paul Wallach (b. 1960), opening September 12 at its Tokyo gallery — his first exhibition in Asia. The artist will be present at the opening. Following a celebrated return to New York in 2025 after three decades shown largely in Europe and more than thirty years working resolutely from Paris, Wallach has built one of the more singular sculptural practices of his generation. It is a body of work that moves fluently between the intimacy of a small, hand-worked wall piece and the permanent, outdoor scale of a public installation, without ever losing the same exacting, personal logic. His is a voice that has grown in influence while never asking to be noticed — a discreet, essential presence in the wider field of sculpture today. To divide, for Wallach, is a way of deciding, and just as often, a way of questioning. Each work begins with a cut, a joint, a gap, and ends by holding what it has divided toget ... More
Marinella Senatore, I Contain Multitudes, 2026. Schulhausplatz, St. Moritz, Switzerland. Photo: Fabian Gattlen.
ST MORITZ.- As part of the newly founded art programme REFLECTION, the award-winning Italian artist Marinella Senatore will present a set of new site-specific light installations (Luminarie) entitled I Contain Multitudes in St. Moritz, Switzerland, from late August until October 2026. The installations will be shown at Schulhausplatz and Forum Paracelsus. REFLECTION is a public art programme that places site-specific works in dialogue with their surroundings and in relation to the people of St. Moritz. It is the first major project initiated by the newly established Kulturstiftung St. Moritz (St. Moritz Cultural Foundation) itself. Beginning in 2026, artists will be invited every two years to spend time in residence in St. Moritz. Drawing on the experiences, traces and inspirations encountered during their stay, the resulting artworks are intended to enter into dialogue with the urban and alpine landscape, whether temporarily or permanently. The programme is conceived and artistically directed by ... More
Augusto Salvatore Oppo (Sassari, 1939–2015). Photograph from the Oppo Family Archive. Courtesy Archivio Augusto Oppo.
SASSARI.- A new open digital archive is bringing renewed attention to Augusto Salvatore Oppo (Sassari, 1939–2015), an Italian painter, designer and educator whose work developed over more than five decades but remained largely outside the national art-historical narrative. Created by the artist's sons, Paolo and Carlo Oppo, the Augusto Oppo Archive has already documented more than 500 works and continues to expand as paintings, documents, photographs and testimonies emerge from private collections, homes and archives. The project is not conceived as a closed retrospective catalogue. Its public and participatory structure is central to the research: collectors and private owners are invited to submit information and photographs of works that have not yet been documented. Publishing the archive has itself become a means of discovery, gradually reconnecting works that had become geographically and privately dispersed. Oppo was born in Sassari, Sardinia, in 1939. Although he wished ... More
Chest of drawers, William Houston, Goffstown, New Hampshire, 1773–77. Soft maple, white pine. Winterthur Museum. Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont 1957.1391.
WINTERTHUR, DE.- Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library's new exhibition, Challenging Masterpieces: Art and Identity in American Furniture, uses more than 70 objects from its own collection to show how the term masterpiece was constructed, who it left out, and how it's being redefined today. Developed by Joshua W. Lane, the Lois F. and Henry S. McNeil Curator of Furniture, the exhibition opens Sept. 26, 2026, and runs through May 2, 2027. Organized around a single question, What makes a masterpiece? the exhibition traces how that label emerged among early 20th-century collectors, hardened into orthodoxy, and is now being reconsidered. The show unfolds across two galleries and two themes: the first traces how the idea of the aesthetic “masterpiece” took hold in American antiques collecting in the early 20th century; the second carries that inquiry forward, showing how the definition has expanded from the 1970s to the present. “We chose the exhibition title to spur reflection on masterpiece a ... More
Graciela Iturbide, Cholos Harpys, White Fence, East LA, Estados Unidos, 1986.
SANTA MONICA, CA.- ROSEGALLERY will present White Fence, Los Cholos, an exhibition of photographs made by Graciela Iturbide in East Los Angeles in 1986. On May 2, 1986, an assignment for the landmark documentary photographic project A Day in the Life of America brought Iturbide to an apartment in the East L.A. neighborhood of Boyle Heights. There, she was welcomed into a household of young men and women connected to the historic White Fence gang. Named for the white picket fence that surrounded La Pursma Catholic Church (the early gathering place for a youth group and sports team formed by a group of young Mexican American men), following the second World War, the White Fence gang developed into one of the most prominent gangs of the twentieth century. When Iturbide arrived, the community was facing not only intense gang violence, but crises of addiction and police brutality. When deciding on a location to photograph, Iturbide consulted with the Los Angeles Photo Center and Sister Karen Boccalero of Sel ... More
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Gina Babić turns anatomy, fragility and memory into sculpture at Spazio Iris SPOLTORE, ITALY.- For Gina Babić, the human body belongs to two very different worlds. In one, it is something to be studied, understood and treated through her work as an orthopedic doctor. In the other, it becomes material for imagination — something that can be reshaped, distorted and freed from the rules of anatomy. Those two experiences come together in Carni Scelte, Babić’s solo exhibition opening September 4 at Spazio Iris in Spoltore, near Pescara. Curated by Carla Abril Maizon, the exhibition brings ceramics and installations into a conversation about the body, vulnerability and the complicated boundary between professional responsibility and artistic freedom. Even the title begins with a contradiction. Carni Scelte literally evokes “choice meats,” the kind of phrase that might once have appeared outside a neighborhood butcher shop. It is a deliberately ... More
Rowan University MCA presents Diane Burko environmental exhibition GLASSBORO, NJ.- The Rowan University Museum of Contemporary Art presents Diane Burko: Extraction, A Dialogue of Extremes, a multimedia exhibition on view from August 24 through October 17, 2026 at RUMOCA's 301 High Street W. Gallery. An opening reception will be held on Wednesday, September 16, from 5:00–7:00 p.m., preceded by a 4:00 p.m. panel discussion exploring the intersection of art and science. Presented in collaboration with the Arctic Radium Isotope Observing Network (ARION), a National Science Foundation–funded research project led by Rowan University Associate Professor Dr. Lauren E. Kipp and Dr. Matt Charette of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the exhibition demonstrates how artistic practice and scientific research can illuminate the environmental challenges shaping our world. Through painting, sculpture, ... More
MCA Australia unveils artist Nell's Loti Smorgon Sculpture Terrace Commission SYDNEY.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA Australia) today unveils the 2026–2027 Loti Smorgon Sculpture Terrace Commission by Sydney-based artist Nell (b. 1975, Maitland, New South Wales). Holding Both (2026) is a life-size bronze sculpture of a woman balancing the weight of two suspended glass ghosts across her shoulders. Timeless and universal, the figure reflects women's physical and emotional capacity to hold two things at once. Nell has been making figurative sculptures of women for nearly two decades, and her new commission has been in development for many years. ‘I’ve been wanting to make this work for over 15 years and have been waiting for the right set of circumstances to create and present it, and the MCA Loti Smorgon Sculpture Terrace is the right time and place', says Nell. Set against the backdrop of ... More
Lizzadro Museum to present retrospective of award-winning jeweler Mark Schneider OAK BROOK, IL.- An exhibition of award-winning jeweler Mark Schneider’s one-of-a-kind pieces will open on view at the Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art from November 7, 2026-March 28, 2027. The exhibition is guest curated by Elyse Zorn Karlin. Jewelry designer Mark Schneider has won an amazing 68 prestigious jewelry industry awards, no doubt setting a record for an individual designer. Mark ‘grew up’ in his family’s retail jewelry business. In 1981, he had an epiphany—he decided he should pivot into designing his own jewelry. What is special about Mark’s designs is how he begins them. Through his extensive network of gem dealers and gem carvers, he searches for stones that will evolve into his magnificent jewels. As explained in the foreword to the book featuring his jewelry: “Mark’s starting point is the gemstone. He rarely comes up with a design ... More
De Buck returns to Chelsea with month-long pop-up and Armory Show presentation NEW YORK, NY.- De Buck will return to Chelsea this September with its first pop-up gallery, taking over a space in the newly redesigned Arts Building at 529 West 20th Street for a month-long program that will mix contemporary artists with modern and secondary-market works. Running from September 3 through October 4, the temporary gallery marks De Buck’s return to a physical space in the neighborhood and will operate more like a changing exhibition than a conventional static presentation. New rotations are planned each week, allowing the gallery to continually reshape the conversation among artists from different generations. The opening installation brings together two generations of Belgian art through works by Gommaar Gilliams and the late Roger Raveel. Gilliams’ large-scale, tactile compositions, often described through their dreamlike and fairytale- ... More
Cit internationale des arts presents To Make Space for the World exhibition PARIS.- Taking Cit internationale des arts as the starting point, To Make Space for the World proposes a wider reflection on how contemporary artists address the promises, contradictions and afterlives of cultural internationalism, a form of exchange, action, and solidarity that extends beyond national frameworks. Bringing together 16 artists from 15 different countries (in residence between 2003 and the present day), To Make Space for the World presents the relation to borders, known as the international, not as a settled value, but as something lived unevenly: a daily process of negotiation, translation, hospitality and forced displacement for many; a structure of opportunity, but also of dependence; a promise that could orient artists powerfully, while never entirely escaping the political and cultural asymmetries of the world around it. While the Cit internationale ... More
Pioneering new study reveals the deadly impacts of plastic pollution on wildlife populations for the first time LONDON.- Mounting levels of plastic waste in the environment are affecting wildlife populations, new research has revealed. Every year, around 50 million tonnes of plastic is dumped into the environment. This waste entangles, chokes and poisons wildlife across the world, including sable shearwaters living on the remote Australian island of Lord Howe. After hatching on the island, these birds head out to sea for several years before returning to breed as adults. Sable shearwaters have rapidly become some of the most plastic-polluted animals in the world, with parents known to feed their chicks waste after mistaking it for food. The devastating impacts of this mean many chicks experience dementia-like symptoms and suffer from a fibrotic disease known as ‘plasticosis’. Now, new research has revealed that plastic pollution isn’t just affecting individuals, but the health ... More
New Ilmin Museum show explores contemporary abstraction and mood SEOUL.- Ilmin Museum of Art is presenting Vibe Era, a group exhibition on view from August 26 to October 25, 2026. In an age where a convincing mood or effect replaces aesthetic judgment and form, Vibe Era explores contemporary abstraction and its images as precursors to such transformations. Like evolving organisms seeking unresolved forms, the participating artists—Park Rim, Park Junghae, Park Hyunjung, and Han Jihyoung—experiment with abstraction amid the continuity between a past lost in its making and the future it points toward. Over the past decade, abstract art has been challenged from two directions. The first concerns its aesthetic legitimacy. Here, abstraction is accused of failing to engage with current social and political realities, reduced instead to decoration or commodity. The second concerns its historical legitimacy. From ... More
Prague's enfant terrible of contemporary art brings his most iconic works to London LONDON.- A new exhibition by Czech artist David Čern — one of the most renowned visual artists of his generation and influential creator of Prague’s public space — opens in London on 12 September, showcasing the artist’s most notable works from the 1990s. The works will be on display as models reprinted in 3D by the globally successful Czech company Prusa Research. The exhibition is presented as part of the London Design Festival and the 30th Made in Prague Festival organised by the Czech Centre. Čern, whose push-up making double-decker became a sensation during the 2012 London Olympics, will attend the opening of his solo London exhibition. At the centre of the exhibition stand The Babies, one of the symbols of modern Prague, the giant sized sculptures crawling the TV tower in the Žižkov district of the Czech capital, and the story of Prague’s ... More
Microscopic grains reveal global stories in Berlin exhibition on sand BERLIN.- Sand, one of the most ordinary materials underfoot, becomes a subject of close scrutiny and unexpected beauty in “To See the World in a Grain of Sand,” an exhibition bringing together the work of Matthias Burba and Max Seeger at the Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung in Berlin. The exhibition remains on view through September 6, 2026. At its center are the microphotographs of Matthias Burba, born in 1954, a forensic scientist and synesthete who has assembled a collection of roughly 800 sand samples from locations around the world. Seen through a polarizing microscope, the grains lose their familiar appearance and become vivid compositions of color, texture, and fractured light. Burba uses light and filters to draw out the particular characteristics of each sample. The resulting photographs can resemble abstract paintings, but their visual qualities also contain information ... More
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On a day like today, Dutch painter Frans Hals died
August 26, 1666. Frans Hals the Elder (c.?1582 - 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He lived and worked in Haarlem, a city in which the local authority of the day frowned on religious painting in places of worship but citizens liked to decorate their homes with works of art. Hals was highly sought after by wealthy burgher commissioners of individual, married-couple, family, and institutional-group portraits. He also painted tronies for the general market. In this image: Frans Hals, Pieter Jacobsz. Olycan, c. 1639, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Bequest of John Ringling, 1936, SN25.
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